Zen the Intergalactic Ninja

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Zen the Intergalactic Ninja is a comic book that was created in 1987 by Steve Stern and Dan Cote and initially published under their Zen Comics imprint. In the early nineties Zen was licensed to Archie Comics, and then to Entity Comics. Zen became a popular cult comic inside the comic book community at a time when comic books where becoming more mainstream.

Afterwhich it became a NES and Game Boy-game made by Konami released in 1993.

The somewhat praised music for the NES game was made by K. Nakamura and has been played on the Swedish radio-channel P3's programme Syntax Error.

Zen has been depicted by many well-known comics artists, including Mike Mignola, creator of Hellboy and Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx, as well as silver age legend Ross Andru. Other artists who have drawn Zen include Jae Lee, Frank Brunner and Bill Maus.

'Alien Hero' is a collection of novellas and short stories about Zen, written by Steve Stern. Zen has also appeared in magazines as varied as Mixx, published by Tokyopop, and Heavy Metal.

In 2005, a 'Zen: Bounty Hunter' series was published, both in print and online, by SSS Comics.

The Hollywood community has for years been attempting to mount a 'Zen' feature film, and there has also been interest in an animated television series.